Join 6 of Psychotherapy's Leaders on the Path to Wisdom

Here’s your chance for a close-up encounter with Mary Pipher, Irvin Yalom, Eugene Gendlin, Tara Brach, Ron Siegel, and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman. They’ll explore the role of wisdom in clinical practice and they’ll offer practical guidance on how you can cultivate the qualities and practices that foster wisdom in your life. You’ll learn how to:

Recognize and call upon the deepest sources of wisdom in you and in your clients.

Maintain freshness in your work by recognizing and avoiding the dulling trance of the habitual.

Develop everyday practices that nurture your own capacity for compassion, authenticity, and wisdom—both inside and outside the consulting room.

Distinguish between different wisdom traditions and their relevance to your life and work.

Discover new strategies for attuning to and shifting the habits of mind that can distort your everyday perceptions of other people and the world.

Empower yourself to face the Big Picture of the world’s complex problems without flinching or becoming demoralized.

Are you ready to investigate the elusive quality we call wisdom and consider its important role in a fulfilling life and true psychological healing? Sign up right now for our 6-session Webcast series Six Faces of Wisdom: Pathways to Becoming a Better Therapist.

Investigating a range of qualities associated with wisdom, including compassion, concern for the consequences of your action, intelligence, and practical problem solving

Ron Siegel is an assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Session 2

Transcending the HabitualEugene Gendlin, Ph.D.

Explore how to bring ongoing freshness and novelty to your life and practice by:

Learning how to put attention deliberately in the body and experience the felt sense

Mastering Focusing as a way of discovering the forward movement in moment-to-moment awareness

Realizing how common phrases and stale language get in the way of new experience

Recognizing the limits of mindfulness

Utilizing the power of fresh symbolizing and the creative life force

Eugene Gendlin is a major American philosopher and psychologist who has been honored four times by the American Psychological Association for his development of Experiential Psychotherapy.

Session 3

Living the Unlived LifeTara Brach, Ph.D.

Discover how to cultivate practices that take us beyond our limiting stories by:

Distinguishing between therapy and the spiritual path

Recognizing the shadow side of both therapy and spirituality

Mobilizing the power of intention and full presence in the therapeutic relationship

Learning how to embrace negative as well as positive emotion

Using deliberate practice to enhance both therapeutic and spiritual awareness

Tara Brach is a founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. A clinical psychologist and Western teacher of Buddhism, Brach is known for integrating psychotherapy with a range of meditative and mindfulness.

Session 4

Cultivating AuthenticityIrvin Yalom, M.D.

Investigate the meaning of authenticity in both therapy and life by:

Exploring how to address issues of mortality, freedom, meaninglessness, and isolation

Looking at the three aspects of self-disclosure in the therapeutic relationship

Discovering what’s revealed by asking clients to describe the concrete details of their day

Considering what art and novel writing can teach us about psychotherapy

How the prospect of facing one’s approaching mortality influences the experience of life

Irvin Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanfrod University.

Session 5

Acting Wisely in the Wider WorldMary Pipher, Ph.D.

Discover how to remain joyous and empowered even while taking on the challenge of addressing the world’s problems by:

Learning how the Transcendent Response can emerge from the cycle of trauma to resilient coping

Exploring how to grow your Moral Imagination through connecting with others to take social action

Considering how therapists can serve as community educators without crossing ethical boundaries

Investigating effective strategies for bringing people out of denial about global issues

Finding out how to bring more experience of bliss and awe into your life

Mary Pipher is the author of the best seller Reviving Ophelia and most recently, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the World's Worst Buddhist, about her fight against midlife depression.

Session 6

Identifying What Really MattersDaniel Kahneman, Ph.D.

Gain insight from the work of a Noble-winning psychologist into the processes of choice and judgment in human cognition by:

Exploring the differences between System 1 and System 2

Distinguishing between the Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self

Recognizing the power of story, the availability bias, and heuristics (mental rules) in organizing our perceptions of the world

Reviewing strategies for encouraging a more productive conversation between System 1 and System 2

Mobilizing the power of context and relabeling to alter System 1 and System 2

Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Afairs at Princeton University, and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Do you want to enhance your capacities for compassion, authenticity, and deep wisdom? Sign up right now for our 6-session Webcast series Six Faces of Wisdom: Pathways to Becoming a Better Therapist.

A New Way to Learn: A Note from Rich Simon

Dear Colleague,

As editor of the Psychotherapy Networker for over 30 years, I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to engage your curiosity, anticipate your questions, and make sure you get answers you can use. I’ve also learned that any subject, if approached in the right way, can be deeply engrossing, understandable, and entertaining.

My goal in each Webcast interview is to zero in on what you need to know to deepen your craft as a therapist. At the same time, the spontaneous, free flow of conversation makes learning far more enjoyable than stodgy workshop lectures and PowerPoint presentations. Our Webcast series are an exciting, new way to stay on the field’s cutting edge.

But enough words—to see what we mean, just click on the video below to watch a preview.

Networker Webcasts offer a lively, close-up learning experience with the field’s leading teachers and innovators. You’ll discover practical approaches and methods you can use in your very next session with a client, without having to leave home or miss a day of work. It’s the best CE deal you’ll find anywhere.

Learning that Fits Your Schedule

All 6 Webcast sessions available now

Watch the Webcasts again and again for a full year. Take up to a year from the purchase date to complete your CE quiz online

Download audio of each session so you can listen any time—in your car, at home, or while you exercise

Download full transcripts and bonus articles to add to your permanent library

If you're not completely satisfied, we'll refund your money in full—100%. Just let us know within 30 days. I'm that confident that you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.

Do you want to see beyond the limiting stories your clients share with you in therapy? Sign up right now for our 6-session Webcast series Six Faces of Wisdom: Pathways to Becoming a Better Therapist.

Thank you, Rich Simon, for having such great webcasts and being an excellent interviewer.Lee C. - New York, NY

Wisdom can be cultivated. Meet the wise souls who will share what they know about the process. All 6 Webcast sessions available now. Take up to a full year to watch and review at your convenience.

Would you like to better recognize and call upon the deepest sources of wisdom in your clients? Sign up right now for our 6-session Webcast series Six Faces of Wisdom: Pathways to Becoming a Better Therapist.